From suffering to thriving: Faith in destiny as a resilience strategy of Muslim with post-accidents physical disabilities

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Table 1. Characteristics of participants

P	Sex	Age	Marital Status	Educ. Level	Time to Resilience	Incident	Physical Disabilities	Job
P1	M	24	Single	Junior High School	1 week	Fall from third floor	Broken left leg	Workshop technician
P2	M	21	Single	Senior High School	1 week	Traffic accident	Amputated left leg	Multi level marketing
P3	M	20	Single	Senior High School	1 year	Traffic accident	Amputated left leg	No job
P4	M	27	Widower	Senior High School	1 year	Job accident	Broken right hand	Parking officer
P5	M	19	Single	Junior High School	3 months	Traffic accident	Broken left hand	Workshop technician
P6	F	60	Widower	Primary School	> 1.5 years	Earthquake victim	Broken hip, paralyzed	Labourer
P7	F	45	Married	Junior High School	1 month	Eruption victim	Broken both legs	Farmer
P8	M	48	Married	Senior High School	5 days	Job accident	Amputated left leg	Electrical technician

Table 2. Overview of research findings

Participant background	Participant responses	Resilience achievement
Praying, zikr, and the holy Qur’an recitation as a healing	Gratitude, and making the heart calm	Faster
Islamic studies and the search for meaning	Understanding the concept of destiny and the essence of incidents	Faster
Family support (parents, wife/husband, children, brothers-sisters), teachers and friends support	Participants feel not alone, optimism, and understanding that his/her condition is better than others	Faster
No praying, no zikr, and no holy Qur’an recitation, without involving in Islamic studies.	the heart feels restless, did not understand the concept of destiny and the essence of incidents	Slower
Perceive the incidents because of a causal relationship: drunk, careless, superstitious.	Failure to understand the essence of accidents, blame yourself and blame God.	Slower
Less family support: families don’t care, the couple asks for divorce and remarries.	Angry, suffering more and more, finds it hard to accept reality	Slower